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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: Last time SEAI was before the committee, it said it was going out to tender on a process of community-based social marketing. Is that up and running?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I wish to follow on from Deputy Whitmore's question on solar power for the medically vulnerable. What are the witnesses' opinions on the fact that storage batteries are not provided with panels? Is it not a waste not to have a battery provided at the same time, particularly for people who are medically vulnerable?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: What is the approximate cost?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: There are not many people who fall into the medically vulnerable cohort.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I wish to ask about the data that are available on income demographics as they relate to those homes that have availed of the SEAI's grants thus far. In response to Senator Boylan, it was stated that providing those data was not possible because of GDPR. The SEAI is a Government agency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: It might be possible to collect the data in an anonymous format; we do not need to know the names and addresses of the people in question. The SEAI is a Government agency. Has it spoken to the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, about trying to push this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: Of course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I thank Dr. Byrne.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: Would Dr. Byrne be willing to give his opinion to the Department that he believes this would be a worthwhile exercise?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I raise the decision by Maynooth University not to proceed with the student centre, for which a levy was put on students in recent years. This morning, students in the university staged a walkout in protest, as part of its Where’s my Levy campaign. I have had so much contact from students and parents who paid into the levy and from the wider academic community as well who live around...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: Will the Tánaiste respond to the question?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: 299. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of early childhood care and education, ECCE, scheme services that are of standard capitation given that his Department states that a standard capitation ECCE service will receive at least a 9.5% increase through core funding; the number that were higher capitation; the percentage increase awarded by...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: 300. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress made to date in establishing a definition for reasonable profit within the meaning of the Crowe Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49246/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: 301. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the attention of his Department has been drawn to a penalising effect of the core-funding allocation wherein smaller independent services face closure thereby reducing choice for parents who want part-time care or early childhood care and education scheme-only provision, something that is not catered for in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: 302. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department accepts that a 40-week preschool should be funded, wherever such provision is profitable, and that the Departmental policy extant could lead to the eradication of small, home from home services of which up to 1500 exist across the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49248/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: 308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will undertake a thorough investigation of a matter at Maynooth University whereby a decision has been taken not to proceed with a long promised student centre and for which levies had been placed on students over several years; if so, if he will publish the findings of such investigation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: 309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if former students at Maynooth University who paid levies for the construction of a designated student centre will be refunded those monies paid and with interest due, now that the structure as envisioned is not to go ahead; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49250/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I thank the witnesses for their submissions, which I read last night and again this morning. I preface all my observations at this meeting with the observation that, after the reporting of IBEC's extraordinary and worrying statement on domestic violence leave, what seems to have gone missing in the furore yesterday was that the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: Many universities already give ten days of domestic violence leave. I believe Vodafone and many big companies do this as well. It is strange that what went unnoticed yesterday is that the Minister had already halved that to five days and had also recommended that evidence will be needed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I apologise for interrupting. I am sure there is a delay with the Internet. I was surprised that what went missing was the report from the Minister, Deputy O’Gorman, suggesting the exact same thing. That should be put on the record. Will SIPTU have any comment?